Changelog for syslinux-3.86-10.1.x86_64.rpm :
Mon Apr 19 14:00:00 2010 snwintAATTsuse.de
- fix menu label handling

Fri Apr 16 14:00:00 2010 snwintAATTsuse.de
- gfxboot.c32:

* support MENU LABEL

* handle IPAPPEND

* fix LOCALBOOT (bnc #592779)

* better error handling

Thu Apr 8 14:00:00 2010 snwintAATTsuse.de
- update to version 3.86

* chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
in 3.85).

* mboot.c32: report the boot loader name in the information
structure.

* com32: set argv[0] in a com32 module.

* core: add a workaround for a bug in Xen HVM older than
version 3.3: disable halt on those platforms.

* Fix problems where certain operations in com32 modules would
cause the core to believe the system was idle.

* MEMDISK: fix MBR detection when used with a DOSEMU header or
an offset.

* MEMDISK: generate the mBFT checksum correctly.

* gPXELINUX: updated to gPXE 1.0.0. gPXELINUX can now do NBP
chainloading, and does not require a second DHCP.

* vesamenu.c32: unbreak the default \"grey hole\" background.

* We no longer have a built-in default of \"linux auto\".
Instead, if no DEFAULT or UI statement is found, or the
configuration file is missing entirely, we drop to the boot:
prompt with an error message (if NOESCAPE is set, we stop
with a \"boot failed\" message; this is also the case for
PXELINUX if the configuration file is not found.)

* chain.c32: support chainloading Grub4DOS; patch by Gert
Hulselmans.

* New tool: sysdump.c32, can be used to produce system
information for debugging via tftp or ymodem (serial port).

* \"vga=current\" on the Linux command line is now supported.

* chain.c32: support for Windows Recovery Console, via the
\"cmldr=\" option.

* chain.c32: should now support loading NTLDR from different
type media than loaded from.

* chain.c32: support chainloading to a FAT/NTFS partition with
invalid \"hidden sectors\" via the \"sethidden\" option.

* memdisk: fix the mBFT ACPI table.

* vesamenu.c32: if the image is smaller than the screen, tile
it across the whole screen.

* mkdiskimage: -s option for producing a sparse image.

* vesamenu.c32: support arbitrary resolution setting (beyond
BIOS support) on some Intel-based video chipsets. This code
is a modified version of the \"915resolution\" tool by
Steve Tomljenovic; your mileage might vary.

* SYSLINUX: make the DOS installer work for MS-DOS 7.x/8.x
(Win9x/ME) again.

* HDT: updated to version 0.3.6 (numerous changes.)

* mboot.c32: now supports video mode setting if requested by
the image.

* MEMDISK: Fix floppy images of PC-DOS.

* MEMDISK: Add support for emulation of CD-ROM images; patch
by Shao Miller.

* MEMDISK: Comply with the Win9x \"safe hook\" standard,
allowing a protected-mode driver.

* MEMDISK: New \"mBFT\" ACPI table, by analogy with the iSCSI
iBFT table. This allows detection from a protected-mode
operating system without EDD support.

* 32-bit version of the gfxboot loader (gfxboot.c32), so far
experimental. This will replace gfxboot.com in the future.

* vesamenu.c32: new MENU RESOLUTION directive to set a screen
resolution other than 640x480.

* chain.c32: add support for loading isolinux.bin.

* chain.c32: make sure to always return to text mode.

* eltorito.sys: DOS driver for generic CD-ROMs; by Gary Tong
and Bart Lagerweij.

Mon Nov 16 13:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- fix chdir() call

Thu Oct 29 13:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- add gfxboot.c32

Mon Oct 19 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- get kernel size right

Mon Oct 19 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- set correct timeout value
- localboot should return to text mode

Thu Oct 15 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- update to version 3.83

* PXELINUX: clear memory before handing over to a chainloaded
NBP. This may help avoid a bug in Windows RIS.

* PXELINUX: fix localboot after NBP chainloading on certain
BIOSes (including ASUS A8N-E, but possibly others.)

* chain.c32: support chainloaded bootloaders on ISOLINUX.

* PXELINUX: allow filenames up to 251 characters.

* MEMDISK: fix problems booting from USB on Thinkpads, and
possibly other machines or hardware combinations.

* HDT: updated to version 0.3.4.

* MEMDISK: the stack size is now configurable, with the stack=
option.

* Simple menu: fix Ctrl-W (word erase) in command-line edit.

* Simple menu: fix crash on some platforms.

* PXELINUX: add a tool to override specific DHCP options via
values hardcoded in the pxelinux.0 file. These hardcoded
values can be either \"before DHCP\" (defaults if DHCP do not
provide values), or \"after DHCP\" (overrides DHCP). The tool
pxelinux-options can be used to set these options. This
feature does not apply to gpxelinux.0; when used with gPXE
this is better handled by modifying the embedded script.

Mon Oct 5 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- if first memory area is too small, use largest (bnc #469889, bnc #507952)

Tue Aug 25 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- fix argv setup (bnc #530255)
- now accepts two args: bootlogo and a (text)message file

Fri Aug 7 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- replaced gfxboot.com with an enhanced version

Tue Aug 4 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- fix isohybrid -id

Wed Jun 10 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- update to version 3.82

* Lots of bug fixes.

* Simple menu: make ONTIMEOUT work with MENU HIDDEN.

* PXELINUX: handle TFTP servers which have extra NULs at the
end of an OACK packet.

* Attempt to halt the processor while idle. This can cause
bad reponsiveness when using a serial console especially for
automated input; if that ends up being a problem, use the
new \"NOHALT 1\" configuration command.

* isohybrid: fix the -partok logic for loading from a partition.

* isohybrid: add a variety of options, and a help message.

* isohybrid: fix problem with images over 2 GB in size.

* ISOLINUX: fix booting in hybrid mode when CBIOS is used.
This unfortunately means that the isohybrid handoff protocol
has changed, so the isohybrid utility must version-match
isolinux.bin.

* Don\'t hang trying to boot a \"menu quit\" label from the CLI.

* Fix problem with boot-once \"sticking\" on some BIOSes.

Wed Apr 22 14:00:00 2009 snwintAATTsuse.de
- gfxboot: usage has changed; see README.gfxboot for details
- update to version 3.75

* Lots of bug fixes.

* New UI directive, which allows a more natural way to specify
a menu system (or not.) With the UI directive specifying
the menu system, the DEFAULT directive can be used to select
the default entry inside the menus.

* kbdmap.c32: new module to load a new keyboard map
dynamically.

* Suppress the Loading ... message if \"quiet\" is specified on
the kernel command line.

* MBR: produce alternate MBR variants which force the drive
number to hd0 (_f variants), or force the drive number to
hd0 if the Ctrl key is pressed (_c variants.) Furthermore,
add an MBR variant (altmbr
*.bin) which ignores the active
flag and instead boots the partition number specified in the
byte at offset 439 decimal.

* Add IPAPPEND strings to com32 modules, especially needed for
linux.c32.

* New MENU SAVE directive which saves the latest menu
selection until the next boot. Currently only implemented for
EXTLINUX.

* gfxboot.com:
*experimental
* interface module to Steffen
Winterfeldt\'s \"gfxboot\" graphical front end
(http://gfxboot.sourceforge.net/). Module by Sebastian Herbszt.

* config.c32: trivial COM32 module to restart Syslinux with
another configuration file from the command line (equivalent
to the CONFIG command in the configuratin file.)

* Include the pxechain.com module from Jeffery Hutzelman at
Carnegie Mellon University. This allows chaining another
PXE boot program while changing the DHCP packet passed to
it.

* ISOLINUX: support generating images which can be either
a CD-ROM or a hard disk (USB disk, etc.) See
doc/isolinux.txt for more information.

* Tab display of labels, based on a patch from Sebastian
Herbszt. Can be disabled with the NOCOMPLETE configuration
command.

* Optionally allow initrd to be specified on a separate line
rather than as part of the \"append\" line. This is not
recommended, but apparently makes life easier for some
tools.

* chain.c32: lots of new options added

* ifcpu64.c32: simple COM32 module to select a 32- or 64-bit
kernel (and optionally 32-bit kernels with or without PAE.)
Eventually we want a scripting language for this
kind of stuff; a Lua module is under development.

* PXELINUX: Support enhanced capabilities when running on top
of gPXE (http://www.etherboot.org/). In particular, support
URL-style syntax for filenames, and any protocol that gPXE
supports (except, currently, iSCSI and AoE.) This feature
is currently highly experimental.

* SYSLINUX: VFAT long filename support.

* Add an experimental MBR for GPT partition tables.

Tue Nov 4 13:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- gfxboot: increase usable mem size to 8MB

Fri Oct 17 14:00:00 2008 olhAATTsuse.de
- add ExclusiveArch x86 x86_64

Thu Oct 16 14:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- minor serial line patch fix (bnc #436034)

Wed Sep 10 14:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- reworked serial line patch (removed SERIALLINES)

Thu Sep 4 14:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- added SERIALLINES config option to listen on up to four
serial lines (fate #301595)

Mon Apr 28 14:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- give more memory to gfxboot code

Mon Apr 14 14:00:00 2008 snwintAATTsuse.de
- update to version 3.63

* Lots of bug fixes.

* Handle command lines up to 2047 characters, the current
Linux kernel limit.

* Support MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 encrypted passwords.

* MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default.

* Add a new INCLUDE command to the core syslinux parser.

* It is now supported to load a different configuration file
with the CONFIG keyword.

* MENU AUTOBOOT, MENU TABMSG, MENU PASSPROMPT allows
internationalization of menu messages.

* New hierarchial submenu support: see MENU BEGIN, MENU END,
MENU GOTO in doc/menu.txt.

* MENU QUIT allows creating a menu entry for returning to the
command line.

* Simple menu system: new \"MENU HIDDEN\" option to not display
the menu unless the user presses a key.

* Add \"menu separator\", \"menu indent\", \"menu disabled\"
(see README.menu).

* SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories.

* PXELINUX: Press Ctrl-N at the boot prompt to read out the
network info.

* PXELINUX: as per RFC 5071, PXELINUX no longer requires the
use of the magic cookie option (208) for unencapsulated
options. Currently it does not require it for
vendor-encapsulated options (vendor-option-space) either,
but that MAY be reverted in the future if it causes problems.

* EXTLINUX: boot-once support (--once, --clear-once, and --reset-adv)

* Support for \"auxilliary data vector\", a small amount of
writable storage. Currently only supported for EXTLINUX,
but the infrastructure is there for the other derivatives,
assuming a suitable storage location can be found.

Fri Jun 22 14:00:00 2007 snwintAATTsuse.de
- requires mtools (#286216)

Fri Feb 9 13:00:00 2007 snwintAATTsuse.de
- fixed file list

Mon Oct 9 14:00:00 2006 snwintAATTsuse.de
- no progress dots when in gfx mode

Fri Sep 29 14:00:00 2006 snwintAATTsuse.de
- update to version 3.31

* The simple menu system (menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32) now
support loading more than one configuration file at a time,
using MENU INCLUDE or by specifying multiple filenames.

* The MENU COLOR statement can now control the shadowing mode.

* libcom32 extended to support graphics mode and graphical console.

* vesamenu.c32, new graphical version of the Simple
Menu System, see README.menu.

* New com32 modules by Erwan Velu do selection based on CPUID
or PCI devices present.

* EXTLINUX: New options --install (-i) and --update (-U), to
make it clear if a boot loader should be installed or
updated. For now, defaults to --install for compatibility;
a future version will require one of these options.

* New library functions to load and place files in memory.

* mboot.c32 bug fixes.

* Remove 8 MB kernel size restriction.

* PXELINUX: Fail (and eventually reboot) if no configuration
file was found.

* COM32 module by Erwan Velu to make decisions based on DMI info.

* Fix issue where going back and forth between menus a lot
would cause a hang.

* ISOLINUX: Fix bug which made \"cd boot sectors\" not work.

Fri Aug 25 14:00:00 2006 snwintAATTsuse.de
- needs gcc41-32bit

Wed Aug 23 14:00:00 2006 snwintAATTsuse.de
- support latest gfxboot

Tue Aug 15 14:00:00 2006 cthielAATTsuse.de
- specfile cleanup
- include chain.c32, copybs.com, ethersel.c32, mboot.c32, mbr.bin, menu.c32,
syslinux.com, mboot.doc README.menu and README.usbkey